Retrograde Calendar
About Retrograde Calendar
Station times, degrees, durations, and shadow periods for every retrograde of the year — computed astronomy, not folklore.
No planet ever backs up; the loop is a trick of parallax as Earth laps a slower world or is lapped by a faster one. The tradition reads it accordingly. A changes a planet's gear, not its meaning; matters under its sponsorship come round again for review, revision, repair. The days that carry real weight are the , when a planet stands still to turn. Mark those dates, not the whole stretch.
☿︎Mercury retrograde 1745· three times this year
The classic season of crossed wires; three or four short spells a year. Re-read, re-confirm, back up the files; let the signature wait for the turning day if it can.
Retrograde 24 Jan – 14 Feb (3 weeks), 20°11' Aquarius back to 4°39' Aquarius; shadow from 08 Jan to 06 Mar. Stations at 09:40 and 16:41 UT.
Retrograde 23 May – 16 Jun (3 weeks), 17°54' Gemini back to 9°20' Gemini; shadow from 08 May to 01 Jul. Stations at 06:29 and 05:29 UT.
Retrograde 20 Sep – 12 Oct (3 weeks), 19°07' Libra back to 3°49' Libra; shadow from 31 Aug to 27 Oct. Stations at 20:36 and 09:02 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1745· once this year
Retrograde 20 May – 02 Jul (6 weeks), 28°07' Gemini back to 11°36' Gemini; shadow from 16 Apr to 05 Aug. Stations at 08:49 and 10:58 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1745· once this year
Retrograde 11 Feb – 02 May (11 weeks), 10°29' Libra back to 21°33' Virgo; shadow from 07 Dec 1744 to 05 Jul. Stations at 05:44 and 12:31 UT.
The slow planets
Jupiter outward, a planet spends four to five months of every year retrograde; that is ordinary weather, not an event. The slower the planet, the longer the spell and the less it asks of any single day. Mark the stations; the rest is season.
♃︎Jupiter retrograde 1745· once this year
Retrograde 27 Feb – 01 Jul (18 weeks), 14°14' Scorpio back to 4°21' Scorpio; shadow from 03 Dec 1744 to 28 Sep. Stations at 21:02 and 10:13 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1745· once this year
Retrograde 10 Jan – 27 May (20 weeks), 1°47' Libra back to 24°59' Virgo; shadow from 07 Oct 1744 to 02 Sep. Stations at 13:22 and 17:00 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1745· once this year
Retrograde 09 May – 10 Oct (22 weeks), 5°14' Aquarius back to 1°18' Aquarius; shadow from 22 Jan to 24 Jan 1746. Stations at 15:01 and 23:08 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1745· twice this year
Retrograde 19 Oct 1744 – 24 Mar (22 weeks), 16°32' Cancer back to 13°44' Cancer; shadow from 28 Jun 1744 to 16 Jul. Stations at 08:23 and 19:28 UT.
Retrograde 21 Oct – 27 Mar 1746 (22 weeks), 18°46' Cancer back to 15°57' Cancer; shadow from 30 Jun to 18 Jul 1746. Stations at 20:13 and 06:53 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1745· once this year
Retrograde 22 Feb – 29 Jul (22 weeks), 21°45' Scorpio back to 18°57' Scorpio; shadow from 07 Nov 1744 to 16 Nov. Stations at 19:22 and 22:02 UT.
All times Universal Time (UT), from the same engine as the sky. Spells that open or close beyond the calendar year are listed with their own year on the date; the window belongs to both years and appears on both pages. On doctrine: a retrograde conditions a planet's expression; it does not doom it. The working tradition keeps no list of forbidden days, a spell that repeats a is one process rather than three misfortunes, and the shadow is context, not an extension of the sentence. The stations are the moments that matter; what a planet touches while standing still, it means.